英语词汇make one-s hair stand on end的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

make one’s hair stand on end. Surprisingly, this metaphor isn’t recorded before 1530, in a French phrase, but the idea be- hind it is found in the Bible (Job 4: 14–15): “Fear came upon me and trembling . . . the hair of my flesh stood up.” The hair on cats, humans, and other animals can stand on end and be- come rigid with fear; the tiny muscles controlling this reaction are so effective that even baldheaded men feel a prickling of the scalp from sudden terror. An English clergyman at an execu- tion in the early 19th century observed the following: “When the executioner put the cords on the criminal’s wrists, his hair, though long and lanky . . . rose gradually and stood perfectly upright, and so remained for sometime, and then fell gradually down again.”

词汇	make one-s hair stand on end
词源	make one’s hair stand on end. Surprisingly, this metaphor isn’t recorded before 1530, in a French phrase, but the idea be- hind it is found in the Bible (Job 4: 14–15): “Fear came upon me and trembling . . . the hair of my flesh stood up.” The hair on cats, humans, and other animals can stand on end and be- come rigid with fear; the tiny muscles controlling this reaction are so effective that even baldheaded men feel a prickling of the scalp from sudden terror. An English clergyman at an execu- tion in the early 19th century observed the following: “When the executioner put the cords on the criminal’s wrists, his hair, though long and lanky . . . rose gradually and stood perfectly upright, and so remained for sometime, and then fell gradually down again.”
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